1,304 Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.

Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love.

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.